By Ashoka Mukpo A senior corrections officer at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has resigned ...

By Ashoka Mukpo A senior corrections officer at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has resigned after being placed on administrative leave for driving his pickup truck into a crowd of peacef ...

by Michelle Lagos and Danielle Silva Battery Causing Serious Bodily Injury at Walters House By Michelle Lagos After a physical altercation broke out at Walters House in Woodland, Eric Wayne Smith face ...

By Marshall Hammons San Francisco - Five felony counts and one misdemeanor enter. Only two felonies and t ...

By Marshall Hammons San Francisco - Five felony counts and one misdemeanor enter. Only two felonies and the misdemeanor leave. An 18-year-old defendant was brought in to sit before a judge. Two police ...

By Lauren Zaren After hours of deliberation, the jury found Isaiah Antonio Muñoz guilty of some of the ch ...

By Lauren Zaren After hours of deliberation, the jury found Isaiah Antonio Muñoz guilty of some of the charges pressed against him. He is a known active member of Woodland’s Varrio Bosque subset of t ...

By Pedro Maturana The trial of Daniel Ples Stallings, Jr., who is charged with exhibiting a deadly weapon ...

By Pedro Maturana The trial of Daniel Ples Stallings, Jr., who is charged with exhibiting a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and battery, began today in Department 10 with opening statements. Stallings ...

By Kristen Tuntland A defendant with fatal brain cancer but also three strikes was released on his own re ...

By Kristen Tuntland A defendant with fatal brain cancer but also three strikes was released on his own recognizance, despite Judge Dave W. Reed’s great reservations. The preliminary hearing of Kenneth ...

By Connor Kianpour A transient man from Woodland has been charged with assaulting an individual with a de ...

By Connor Kianpour A transient man from Woodland has been charged with assaulting an individual with a deadly weapon. On September 12, 2018, a man—hereafter, referred to as "TG"—was walking southbound ...

By Alexandra Quilici Earlier this month Christopher Keck walked into Bizarro World, a Davis store filled with comics, cards and games, and allegedly put a video game underneath his sweatshirt. The own ...

(From Press Release) - The preliminary hearing continues here Tuesday of the "Picnic Day 5" as their lawy ...

(From Press Release) - The preliminary hearing continues here Tuesday of the "Picnic Day 5" as their lawyers argue the five youths of color are not guilty as charged, and instead are victims of a brut ...

In an earlier column I noted an encounter at Farmer’s Market with a man who pushed back on our coverage o ...

In an earlier column I noted an encounter at Farmer’s Market with a man who pushed back on our coverage of Picnic Day and accused me of anarchism for reporting on people calling for the DA to drop the ...

Yesterday, as we had a booth at Farmer’s Market for the Vanguard, it was mostly a pleasant experience, bu ...

Yesterday, as we had a booth at Farmer’s Market for the Vanguard, it was mostly a pleasant experience, but one man walked up to me and asked if we were a bunch of anarchists. I asked him why he would ...

by Steve Hampton The Yolo County district attorney is charging five people, including three black men, wi ...

by Steve Hampton The Yolo County district attorney is charging five people, including three black men, with assaulting police officers in connection with the Picnic Day “brawl.” Prosecuting attorney R ...

A week after demanding to double the bail on Elijah Williams, one of the defendants in the Picnic Day inc ...

A week after demanding to double the bail on Elijah Williams, one of the defendants in the Picnic Day incident, Supervising Deputy DA Ryan Couzens unceremoniously announced, “The People are no longer ...

Last week for the first time we got to see the charges against the Picnic Day suspects. This is our firs ...

Last week for the first time we got to see the charges against the Picnic Day suspects. This is our first chance to evaluate some of these charges, and in the end it will come down to a couple of key ...

There are now five defendants in the Picnic Day case, where some of the defendants made their second appe ...

There are now five defendants in the Picnic Day case, where some of the defendants made their second appearance – but for Iszir Price and Angelica Reyes, it was their first appearance after being arre ...

The Picnic Day incident on April 22 that has drawn so much local attention saw three men arrested, and tw ...

The Picnic Day incident on April 22 that has drawn so much local attention saw three men arrested, and two Davis police officers taken to the hospital after they claimed to have been swarmed and attac ...

In 2006, in the height of police controversies in Davis, I was strongly in favor of some form of civilian ...

In 2006, in the height of police controversies in Davis, I was strongly in favor of some form of civilian review of the police. I worried that the Police Ombudsman (now called Police Auditor) would b ...

Back in February, I covered the protest of the death of Michael Barrera in Woodland. The protest went fr ...

Back in February, I covered the protest of the death of Michael Barrera in Woodland. The protest went from a vigil to a march, and dozens of protesters took to the streets, eventually blocking an int ...

It was inevitable, once a report came out suggesting police officers were attacked and beaten on Picnic D ...

It was inevitable, once a report came out suggesting police officers were attacked and beaten on Picnic Day, that Picnic Day itself would come under attack. Once again it comes from veteran columnist ...

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